Trying to open the help-files in Poser 5, Photoshop is launching and comes up with a strange error message about "invalid file format" or so. Consequently, I do not have any access to the P5 help files (and can therefore not even judge on whether they are worth it or not - no offense intended, Anthony) What am I doing wrong here. Besides of this little hick-up (and of course my own shortfalls in understanding the program in the first place - but one is trying, isn't one), I did not have any problem with installing Poser 5, zippo, nada, zilch, nothing! I am running W2k-Pro on a 1MHz Pentium-3 (or is it 4? - don't even know) with 512MB-RAM, a dual-head graphics board from ATI (don't know the name), 2 40GB harddisks and some other stuff in the box, doing all kinds of funny things (except when I want them to, but never mind that). The whole smack was thrown together by a friend, following some sort of a spec that I gave him; so, it is not a commercially available machine, like a Compaq or so. On the s/w side, there is all sorts of stuff on it, amongst those, I also have W98 installed to be able to continue to work with the Fast-Dazzle DV-Master, which is not supported by W2k (grrrrh). Right. Now the P5-pack arrived, I threw the CD in and started it, comletely neglecting CL's warning to shut down all your applications, including firewalls, anti-virusses, screen-savers, pop-up-stoppers and all that kind of jazz. I left all of that running. And guess what, it went: "wrrrrrrtt" - bingo - installation done. Next thing was to register. So I called up CL's web-site and ran through the whole registration opera. Much to my surprise, the response was an unmentionable string of words, which they tell me is my such-'n-such code or whatever and that I need to keep it. So I did, thank you very much. - And then P5 would launch - and faster than P4 ever did. Of course: Now the trouble started - but not because of CL, but because of me and my talents as a P5-Wizz (see above). Now come the patches. Downloaded them (with no trouble) and started them (again with all kinds of other applications open). And, what can I say: The patches patched very well. P5 came right back up and all the things, which CL promised they would fix, were fixed - at least as far as I could figure out. Fazit: Poser 5 does not seem to be that bad of a piece of s/w, from as much as I can say. smiles and continues to dig into the P5 secrets